Ray (2004)

Actors: David Krumholtz (actor), Terrence Howard (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), Michael Arata (actor), Gary Grubbs (actor), Jeff Galpin (actor), Trae Ireland (actor), Rick Gomez (actor), Patrick Bauchau (actor), Warwick Davis (actor), Curtis Armstrong (actor), Ray Charles (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), Afemo Omilami (actor), Harry Lennix (actor),

Plot: Ray Charles has the distinction of being both a national treasure and an international phenomenon. By the early 1960s, Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. He had come of age musically and had made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records "Georgia on My Mind" and "Born to Lose" successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. He had made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 (a feat which, except for 1965, he has repeated at least once a year ever since). He had taken virtually every form of popular music and broken through its boundaries with such awe inspiring achievements as the LP's "Genius Plus Soul Equals Jazz" and "Modern Sounds in Country & Western". Rhythm and blues (or "race music" as it had been called) became universally respectable through his efforts. Jazz found a mainstream audience it had never previously enjoyed. And country and western music began to chart an unexpected course to general acceptance, then worldwide popularity. And along the way, Ray Charles was instrumental in the invention of rock and roll. Born in a poor African American town in central Florida, Ray Charles went blind at age seven. With the staunch support of his determined single mother, he developed the fierce resolve, wit and incredible talent that would eventually enable him to overcome not only Jim Crow Racism and the cruel prejudices against the blind, but also discover his own sound which revolutionized American popular music. Nonetheless, as Ray's unprecedented fame grew, so did his weakness for drugs and women, until they threatened to strip away the very things he held most dear. This little known story of Ray Charles' meteoric rise from humble beginnings, his successful struggle to excel in a sighted world and his eventual defeat of his own personal demons make for an inspiring and unforgettable true story of human triumph.

Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, abc-paramount-records, adultery, african-american, african-american-music, african-american-protagonist
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,
Taglines: The extraordinary life story of Ray Charles. A man who fought harder and went farther than anyone thought possible. The only thing more extraordinary than the music is the man behind it: Ray Charles. The extraordinary life story of Ray Charles.

Quotes:

Ray Charles: From now on you guys are gonna be called the Raylettes.::Margie Hendricks: Does that mean we have to "let Ray"?

[as Ray is going blind]::Aretha Robinson: I'll show you how to do something once, I'll help you if you mess up twice, but the third time you're on your own. 'Cause that's how it is in the world.

Ray Charles: I hear like you see. Like that hummingbird outside the window, for instance.::Della Bea Robinson: [astonished] I can't hear her.::Ray Charles: You have to listen.::Della Bea Robinson: [closes her eyes, hears the hummingbird] Yes!::Ray Charles: Yeah. Yes, you can... Uh-oh. Did you hear that?::Della Bea Robinson: What?::Ray Charles: Her heart just skipped a beat.

[repeated line]::Ray Charles: Don't jive me, man.

Marlene: Gossie been cattin' with one of my waitresses since he got here. He never told me his partner was a blind 'Bama boy.::Oberon: Marlene, Demure called. Thurman's sick.::Marlene: What about Sassie.::Oberon: Flat tire.::Marlene: Alright, 'Bama, why don't you get up there and show me what you got.::Ray Charles: Well, I, I'm not really prepared to do my thing, I mean, right now, tonight.::Marlene: Well, this is the only audition you're gonna get, Puddin', so either get on up there or you and Gossie can haul your asses back down south.::Oberon: [hands Ray a joint] Here smoke some of this.::Ray Charles: [coughs] That ain't no tobacco, man!::Oberon: No. Hold it in. It'll calm you down.::Marlene: Alright, Oberon, get up there and introduce him.::Oberon: Yes, Maam!::Marlene: Come on, 'Bama.::Ray Charles: Yeah!::Oberon: I got a special treat for all you satin dolls and I'm not talking about Oberon's big thunder. No, that's for another show. We got some new blood for ya. Fresh off the bus from Florida I give you Ray "Don't Call Me Sugar" Robinson.::Ray Charles: How y'all doin' tonight?::Man in Bar: Better than you!::Oberon: Relax, Ray, relax!::Ray Charles: I got it. What do y'all wanna hear?::Aretha Robinson: How 'bout a little Nat King Cole?::Ray Charles: Y'all like Nat King Cole?::[begins playing]::Marlene: 'Bama ain't bad.::Oberon: I'd say he saved our asses.

Fathead Newman: This ain't no weed, Ray. And we ain't snorting no bitch. This is boy! Boy'll make your ass null and void.::Ray Charles: Null and void, just like my life.

Milt Shaw: You know, Ray, your contract with Atlantic expires in 4 months.::Ray Charles: Yeah, I know. Ahmet and Jerry sent me my new contract. They're gonna double my royalties.::Milt Shaw: Before we go down that road again I thought I'd check and see what else was out there.::Ray Charles: Now, who told you to do that? Atlantic is family. Just like the Shaw agency.::Milt Shaw: Ray, my job is to find you the best deal out there. Now, I had a very productive meeting with the folks at ABC Paramount and they are very interested.::Ray Charles: No. How interested?::Milt Shaw: How about a 50 thousand dollar advance every year for the first three years? You choose your own music. They'll deduct recording costs and pay you 75 percent. Now, look, Ahmet and Jerry are flying in tomorrow night. Will you at least put them off until I have a chance to talk to the boys at ABC?::Ray Charles: Well, my mama always said there was nothin' wrong with talkin'.

Gossie McKee: What the hell's Ray doin' up there?::Marlene: Auditionin' for you Gossie.::Gossie McKee: He ain't no good without me.::Marlene: How'd you and the 'Bama like to do a week here at the Chair. I know a good bass player. Nice jazz trio can score big. With the right manager.::Gossie McKee: Manager?::Marlene: Come on now, Gossie, don't be so small minded. You know you have to give to get.::Gossie McKee: What exactly do I have to give?::Marlene: Twenty-five percent. But I'll be gettin' you other gigs.::Gossie McKee: Alright. Next question. What do I get?::Marlene: What do you need?::Gossie McKee: Double scale as leader. Plus ten percent.::Marlene: What about the 'Bama?::Gossie McKee: He's about as green as a blade of grass. I can handle him.::Marlene: Yeah, he's green alright. So, Gossie, you don't have to worry about finding a hotel room for the 'Bama. He can flop at my place.::Gossie McKee: You don't never change.

Ray Charles: [responding to knock on his door] Who is it?::Ahmet Ertegun: Mr. Charles, my name is Ahmet Ertegun. May I have a moment of your time?::Ray Charles: [opening door] What do you want, man? I'm at church.::Ahmet Ertegun: I'm sorry. I'll come back later.::Ray Charles: You're here now, what do you want?::Ahmet Ertegun: Mr. Charles, my company, Atlantic Records, has just acquired your contract from Swingtime. I'd like to talk about your future.::Ray Charles: Hold on, man. Don't jive me now. I ain't for sale.::Ahmet Ertegun: May I sit down?::[Sits in chair]::Ahmet Ertegun: You see it seems that Jack Lauderdale has found himself, shall we say, a little over extended and has had to unload some of his talent. When your name came up I jumped at the chance to work with you. I'm a big fan.::Ray Charles: What if I want to go to another company? There's a guy out there right now that's willing to pay me seven cents a record. Can you do that?::Ahmet Ertegun: Man, I could promise you fifteen cents a record but you won't get it. Anymore than he'll pay you seven. What I will do is promise you five cents a record and pay you five cents a record. You think pennies, Mr. Charles, you get pennies. You think dollars, you get dollars.::Ray Charles: I like the way you put things together. Omlet, you're alright with me.::Ahmet Ertegun: Ahmet.::Ray Charles: Ahmet. What kind of a name is that anyway.::Ahmet Ertegun: I'm Turkish.::Ray Charles: Well, it looks like Jack Lauderdale's bad luck is my good fortune. I always knew Atlantic was bigger than Swingtime. You do great music there. I dig Atlantic.::Ahmet Ertegun: You could have fooled me.::Ray Charles: Well, I gotta keep my eye on you city boys. Back home they call it country dumb. [Starts laughing] It ain't Turkish.

Ahmet Ertegun: Ray, I'm gonna tell you something and I don't want you to take it the wrong way.::Ray Charles: Well, then give it to me right then.::Ahmet Ertegun: I signed you because I sensed something special in you not because you sound like Nate Cole or Charles Brown.::Ray Charles: But I thought you liked what I do.::Ahmet Ertegun: Look we love the tenor of your voice, your vituosity, your energy...::Ray Charles: But not my music.::Ahmet Ertegun: Man, I didn't say that.::Ray Charles: Look, Ahmet, this is what I do. I gotta make a living. This is what the people want. I don't know no other way.::Ahmet Ertegun: Well we gotta help you find one. Look, let's try a little change of pace. Your familiar with stride piano?::Ray Charles: You kidding me, man? The man I learned the piano from was a stride player.::Ahmet Ertegun: Okay, I've got a song. It's called the Mess Around.::Ray Charles: Mess around. Cute title. Who wrote it?::Ahmet Ertegun: I did.::Ray Charles: Oh. You wrote it. Well, sing it to me, man.::Ahmet Ertegun: Sing it?::Ray Charles: Yeah, it's not like I can read the lyrics.::Ahmet Ertegun: Alright. It's in the key of G.::Ray Charles: Key of G.::[Begins playing]::Ahmet Ertegun: No. More like a Pete Johnson kind of thing.::Ray Charles: Pete Johnson.::[Begins playing again]::Ahmet Ertegun: Yeah, yeah. That's good.::Ray Charles: Oh, you like that? Okay, let's go.

A Face to Kill for (1999)

Actors: Barry Corbin (actor), Raigen Thornton (miscellaneous crew), Brady Coleman (actor), Cari Coughlin (editor), Dennis Letts (actor), John S. Davies (actor), Woody Watson (actor), Christina Mauro (actress), Doug Savant (actor), Craig Busch (miscellaneous crew), Chillie Mo (actor), Crystal Bernard (actress), Leilani Goode (actress), Alex Morris (actor), Gina Grande (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Successfull Virginian horse-trainer and irresistible womanizer Virgil marries sud farm owner Frank Hadley's naively devoted daughter. To avoid being discovered skimming to pay his gambling debts, Virgil ends up arranging for Frak's death in a car 'accident' and his daughter being jailed, the convinces her to sign a divorce to save the farm's reputation and remarries an equally gullible prey. Alas, his first wife is inspired by a jail mate to become a race horse investment consultant, using a completely new identity, and obsessed with revenge, which gets priority over her re-found first love Sam.

Keywords: doping, fraud, gambling, infidelity, jail, kissing, makeover, party, prison, whip
Genres: Drama,

Something to Talk About (1995)

Actors: Paula Weinstein (producer), Julia Roberts (actress), Goldie Hawn (producer), Gena Rowlands (actress), Rhoda Griffis (actress), Kyra Sedgwick (actress), Brett Cullen (actor), Beau Holden (actor), David Huddleston (actor), Robert Duvall (actor), Dennis Quaid (actor), J. Don Ferguson (actor), Muse Watson (actor), Aggie Guerard Rodgers (costume designer), Hans Zimmer (composer),

Plot: Grace Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie deceives her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while, to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone, especially her father's, thus causing a stir in her parent's marriage, too.

Keywords: adultery, affection, american-south, bar, brother-in-law-sister-in-law-relationship, divorce, dysfunctional-family, dysfunctional-marriage, equestrian, extramarital-affair
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: A story about husbands, wives, parents, children and other natural disasters.

Quotes:

Georgia King: What on earth was he thinking of?::Emma Rae: Prob'ly the same thing he was thinkin' with.

[Emma Rae knees Eddie in the groin]::Emma Rae: Grace, the lying cheating sack of shit is here.::Eddie Bichon: [on the floor] Can't... breathe...::Grace: Oh, my God. Emma Rae, what did you do?::Emma Rae: Well, you said to keep him busy. He's busy holding his nuts.::Grace: Oh, my God. Eddie, are you all right?::Eddie Bichon: No!::Grace: Help me get him up.::Eddie Bichon: No! You stay the hell over there!::Emma Rae: Don't worry. I wouldn't walk that far to help you up.::Grace: My God, Emma Rae. What is the matter with you?::Emma Rae: Consider it a blow for your dignity.::Grace: What is dignified about kicking somebody in the balls?::Emma Rae: Well, I feel better.

Eddie Bichon: Em, Emma Rae.::Emma Rae: Are you addressing me?::Eddie Bichon: Yes.::Emma Rae: Well lick it, put a stamp on it, and mail it to someone who gives a shit.

Wyly King: I may have fooled around a little bit, but I've never cheated.

Eddie Bichon: If you didn't want to get married why did you?::Grace: Why'd you ask me?::Eddie Bichon: Why'd I ask you?::Grace: Yeah, you're the one who hasn't even stopped dating yet!

Grace: Emma Rae, I have a cookbook to put out, and a daughter to raise, and the God damn winter Grand Prix. And I just don't have time for the nervous breakdown I deserve, so please, don't ask me to stop and think!

Grace: Oh don't you lay that on me! I have orgasms everyday I've just gotten so use to having them when you're not in the room.::Eddie Bichon: Well that's just GREAT!

Emma Rae: I've got to see a horse about a man.

Grace: Daddy, I'm sorry.::Wyly King: Don't be.::Grace: I'm not.

Wyly King: You know you were lucky to get her the first time.::Eddie Bichon: It was a damn miracle.

Anna (1988)

Actors: Günther Maria Halmer (actor), André Badin (actor), Anton Diffring (actor), Eléonore Hirt (actress), Milena Vukotic (actress), Eberhard Feik (actor), Fred Liewehr (actor), Toni Berger (actor), Mary Cybulski (miscellaneous crew), Sven Burgemeister (miscellaneous crew), Ilse Neubauer (actress), Bernd Burgemeister (producer), Sabi Dorr (actor), Marcelle Barreau (actress), Daniela Amavia (actress),

Genres: Drama, Family, Music, Romance,

Bad Girls Dormitory (1986)

Actors: Tim Kincaid (director), Maggie Wagner (actress), Tim Kincaid (writer), Jennifer Delora (actress), Tom Billett (actor), Dick Biel (actor), Rick Gianasi (actor), Donna Eskra (actress), Jeffrey R. Iorio (miscellaneous crew), Jeffrey R. Iorio (actor), Cynthia De Paula (producer), Frances Raines (actress), LeeAnne Baker (actress), Elisa London (actress), Ryan Sexton (actor),

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: How Far Will They Go To Survive? Too Young for Maximum Security ... Too Dangerous for Juvenile Hall! These Bad Girls Don't Get Much Sleep!

Melanie (1982)

Actors: Paul Sorvino (actor), Paul Zaza (composer), L.Q. Jones (actor), Peter R. Simpson (producer), Don Johnson (actor), Glynnis O'Connor (actress), Pauline Harlow (miscellaneous crew), Marc Dassas (miscellaneous crew), Angela Heald (miscellaneous crew), Julie Whitfield (costume designer), Trudy Young (actress), Martha Gibson (actress), Rex Bromfield (director), Burton Cummings (actor), Gerry Arbeid (producer),

Plot: Melanie Daniel lives in a run down shack with her six-year old son Tyler in the rural community of Jasper, Arkansas, where she has lived all her life. Being illiterate, Melanie, in order to survive, depends on the money coming into the household from her husband, Carl, who is away in the military in California, who she hasn't seen in two years, and who she believes only married her because he got her pregnant. Believing that Tyler's life with Melanie is a dead end and that he potentially could end up illiterate like her, Carl, on his latest visit home, absconds with Tyler back to California. Melanie's motherly instinct kicks in and despite never having left Jasper and being ill-equipped to do so because of her illiteracy which she tries to hide from everyone, she takes a cross-country bus trip to get Tyler back. She arrives unannounced at the doorstep of her childhood friend Ronda. Ronda shares a house in the Hollywood hills with a musician named Rick, who is facing his own issues concerning dealing with his stalled career. Ronda, Rick and Rick's health conscious lawyer friend Walter all try to help Melanie, and believe the best way for her to get Tyler back and rid herself of her dependency on Carl is to take control of her own life, starting by learning how to read and write. In the process of Melanie trying to regain her and Tyler's collective lives, she may find some romantic happiness which has so far eluded her in her life with Carl. But Carl will not give Tyler up without a fight, even if it means killing Melanie.

Keywords: adult-illiteracy, child-custody, divorce, illiteracy, sunset-strip
Genres: Drama,

The Master Gunfighter (1975)

Actors: Angelo Rossitto (actor), William Reynolds (editor), David S. Cass Sr. (actor), Patricia Norris (costume designer), Lalo Schifrin (composer), Burgess Meredith (actor), Tom Laughlin (writer), Tom Laughlin (actor), Ron O'Neal (actor), Barbara Carrera (actress), Lincoln Kilpatrick (actor), Hector Elias (actor), Victor Campos (actor), James Andronica (actor), Danford B. Greene (editor),

Genres: Western,
Taglines: He Fought Like an Army, and Lived Like a Legend.

Mudhoney (1965)

Actors: Russ Meyer (editor), Russ Meyer (producer), Russ Meyer (actor), Russ Meyer (director), John Furlong (actor), Stuart Lancaster (actor), André Brummer (composer), Eve Meyer (producer), Hal Hopper (actor), Fred Owens (actor), George Costello (miscellaneous crew), George Costello (producer), Charles G. Schelling (editor), Michael Finn (actor), Rena Horten (actress),

Plot: It's 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a stranger with a past walks into Spooner, Missouri on his way from Michigan to California. He hires on with Lute Wade to earn some travelling money, but gets entangled in a bad family situation: Lute's daughter is married to Sidney, a good-for-nothing drunk that frequents the rural equivalent of a whorehouse and beats his wife and is just waiting for Lute to kick the bucket to get his money. When Sidney and a local wacko preacher begin orchestrating a smear campaign against Calif, he finds it difficult to conceal his past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.

Keywords: alcoholic, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, bath, buxom, drowning, erotica, female-nudity, fundamentalist-religion, good-versus-evil
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: ...leaves a taste of evil!

Quotes:

Sidney Brenshaw: Hanna eh? Look's like Maggie Marie was right. You taking a shine to my woman boy? [laughs] Well damned if you aren't. So that's way you come busting into her room the other night like some little old fanny roaster. You're sniffing after her aren't ya boy? Answer me! ANSWER ME! So you got a yearning after my woman eh? Well boy you go ahead and do what you can with her, you're wasting you time. Anna gets riled with me and she hates a lot of things that I do but she's MY woman boy, my woman, and do you know why? Because she needs a MAN, a REAL man not some gutless boy. [laughs]

Maggie Marie: Don't pay her no mind, young fella. Eula, that's the child's name. She can't talk. Can't hear, neither. They do say she makes some right pretty sounds once you get to know her.